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{Harper} Looking after her baby dolls is by far her favourite type of play. Even more so when her own Mummy plays along with her. "I be Mummy number one and you be Mummy number two." She kisses them, rocks them to sleep, takes them for walks, breastfeeds them and changes their nappies.
"I'm a good Mummy, because they never cry" she proudly tells me.


{Finn} Celebrating his fifth birthday with a simple Fireman Sam cake and a sparkler candle.
Seems hard to believe that my first baby is half way to double digits. But he is and I am so proud of the boy he is becoming; kind, curious, funny, sensitive and creative. Love him. Big time.

The B-sides (because two photos seems a little minimalist for me…)

{countdown}

{birthday dinner at the noodle house. new fireman sam toy joined us for tea}

{slippery noodles and harper persisting with chopsticks for the entire meal made things interesting...and messy}

{a little extra birthday present we stumbled apon for our fire-fighter in the making. We even got the chance to talk to the firemen but Finn's nerves took over and those millions of questions he asks me about firemen/fire trucks each and every day vanished when the real deal was in front of him. It doesn't matter because he was happy to stand in front of the truck and take in all the details}

{A visit to Canberra's Scupture Gardens. What do you do when you approach a mirror scupture? You scream at it. Obviously.}

{lashes and fly-away hair}

{harper prefers to shampoo her own hair these days. independent little one. not getting shampoo in your eyes is problematic when you are in charge of both rinsing and eye covering duties though}

{reading a book to me. she is just as expressive when she reads as when she talks}